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    #1772
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Ultimate Seduction wrote: »
    Everyone doing it knows the risks

    Watching The Fifth Estate segment on Shriya Shah, I wouldn’t be so sure. She didn’t seem fully clued in.


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    #1773
    Road-Hog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    Did I hear a second Irish man has died on Everest this time in a tent at 7,300m again on his way down, it was his second time scaling Everest. You would wonder why someone would put themselves in such risky situations


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    #1774
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Road-Hog wrote: »
    Did I hear a second Irish man has died on Everest this time in a tent at 7,300m again on his way down, it was his second time scaling Everest. You would wonder why someone would put themselves in such risky situations

    I am going to presume you did hear it.


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    #1775
    tuxy
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Watching The Fifth Estate segment on Shriya Shah, I wouldn’t be so sure. She didn’t seem fully clued in.

    Was it just me or did everyone seem happy about the outcome, especially her husband?
    Expensive suicide, cheap divorce.


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    #1776
    Nobelium
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    Ultimate Seduction wrote: »
    Everyone doing it knows the risks

    They do, but some think their ego means risks don't apply to them.


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    #1777
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,452 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Road-Hog wrote: »
    Did I hear a second Irish man has died on Everest this time in a tent at 7,300m again on his way down, it was his second time scaling Everest. You would wonder why someone would put themselves in such risky situations
    He turned around on his way up on the North side route and sadly died in his tent. He previously had made the summit on the south side route.


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    #1778
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    tuxy wrote: »
    Was it just me or did everyone seem happy about the outcome, especially her husband?
    Expensive suicide, cheap divorce.

    She seemed a bit of an oddball. Especially the staging photos in all the gear before the trip and then having the posters outside her tent. WTF was that all about?


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    #1779
    Nobelium
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Especially the staging photos in all the gear before the trip and then having the posters outside her tent. WTF was that all about?

    simple enough, drumming up publicity, you have to remember, it's all about them


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    #1780
    tommythecat
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    So which side is the hardest to climb? The North or South? I assume the South side is the most popular as it’s the one you hear about most often.

    4kwp South East facing PV System. 5.3kwh Weco battery. South Dublin City.



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    #1781
    tuxy
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    tommythecat wrote: »
    So which side is the hardest to climb? The North or South? I assume the South side is the most popular as it’s the one you hear about most often.

    The south side, higher success ratio less fatality rates most years, less bottlenecks but more permits. A bit warmer on the south side also. But there is not much in it and some years the statistics for the North side look better.


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    #1782
    Wailin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭Wailin


    North side has more technical rock climbing (inc the 3 steps), and base camp is 3,000 ft higher than South side. South side has the Khumbu ice field and Hillary step.

    More deaths have occured on the north side even though it's the least popular route.


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    #1783
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Would it not have made more sense to donate the money raised to Barretstown rather than refund it?:confused:


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    #1784
    Tokyo
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Would it not have made more sense to donate the money raised to Barretstown rather than refund it?:confused:

    Whatever your thoughts are on the original motive of the gofundme, the original donors donated to a search and rescue, not to a hospital or charity. Much fairer IMO to return the money and let the original donors decide if they want to donate elsewhere instead.


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    #1785
    IvoryTower
    Registered Users Posts: 3,825 ✭✭✭IvoryTower


    Dante7 wrote: »
    Pure nonsense. Think about what you just typed there. I don't even know where to begin.

    I don't think so. I agree with the post above, people donated foe a reason, to take the money and give it to some other cause isn't fair imo

    Imagine something happened your best friend and you donated thousands that you couldn't really afford, say you're saving for a house, you should get that money back if it wasn't used for the purpose you donated for


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    #1786
    tuxy
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    Whatever your thoughts are on the original motive of the gofundme, the original donors donated to a search and rescue, not to a hospital or charity. Much fairer IMO to return the money and let the original donors decide if they want to donate elsewhere instead.

    100% refund since a search and rescue was never possible.
    Someone should start a fund for the family though as it does appear that many wish to help his wife.


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    #1787
    RasTa
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    YOu can drive to base camp on the Tibet side


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    #1788
    tuxy
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    RasTa wrote: »
    YOu can drive to base camp on the Tibet side

    And you can get a helicopter to base camp on the Nepal side. Not recommended unless you have acclimatised to that altitude though.


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    #1789
    gman2k
    Registered Users Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    corwill wrote:
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    tuxy wrote:
    And you can get a helicopter to base camp on the Nepal side. Not recommended unless you have acclimatised to that altitude though.


    If I was driving up the Tibet side I would follow an acclimatisation schedule too! Getting there quickly by car could kill.
    There is a train in Tibet (Qingzang train) which operates at altitude and offers oxygen to each passenger!

    After the big Sherpa strike at EBC (Nepal) a few years back, a government minister came by chopper to try and mediate, he had to use O2 there due to the AMS risk.


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    #1790
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,331 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Interesting to see this pop up on my Twitter this evening

    https://twitter.com/nimsdai/status/1131931349030457345


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    #1791
    tuxy
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    WTF? That's crazy, I've never seen anything like it.:eek:


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    #1792
    Nobelium
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Interesting to see this pop up on my Twitter this evening

    https://twitter.com/nimsdai/status/1131931349030457345

    you'd be more original and pioneering if you stood at a bus stop


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    #1793
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    I’m glad to see those photos get reposted often. The more people who see them, the better. Maybe it’s just me and maybe it’s because Irish climbers have died but it feels like this year, awareness has really been heightened of the dangers of Everest. The base camp avalanche and the earthquake of recent years could probably be brushed off easier as freak occurrences but this year has shown that deaths occur for mundane reasons like the crowds keeping people in the death zone for too long.


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    #1794
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I’m glad to see those photos get reposted often. The more people who see them, the better. Maybe it’s just me and maybe it’s because Irish climbers have died but it feels like this year, awareness has really been heightened of the dangers of Everest. The base camp avalanche and the earthquake of recent years could probably be brushed off easier as freak occurrences but this year has shown that deaths occur for mundane reasons like the crowds keeping people in the death zone for too long.

    That and now people are getting a better understanding of what it’s like to climb it.

    It’s like a package tour for the well funded, the Sherpas bear most of the work/risk.


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    #1795
    Effects
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    Road-Hog wrote: »
    You would wonder why someone would put themselves in such risky situations

    Because the adrenaline rush feels really, really good.


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    #1796
    Road-Hog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    Effects wrote: »
    Because the adrenaline rush feels really, really good.

    I understand now.....geez never thought to view it that way.....thanks for pointing that out and enabling me see the light...!


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    #1797
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Interesting to see this pop up on my Twitter this evening

    I understand the pollution all those people leave behind is something else too. Surely it is time to look on those who fly halfway around the world to climb the highest mountain in the world as environmentally unfriendly and selfish? Certainly not heroic anyway.


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    #1798
    Dante7
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    I've just finished Fergus White's book about his ascent in 2010. Someone posted about it a few days ago and I bought the Kindle version for £1.99. Absolutely fantastic read. Thoroughly recommended.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07763H6D7/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b07763h6d7


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    #1799
    shamrock55
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    No way that line of people on the mountain is real


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    #1800
    sullivlo
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    Dante7 wrote: »
    I've just finished Fergus White's book about his ascent in 2010. Someone posted about it a few days ago and I bought the Kindle version for £1.99. Absolutely fantastic read. Thoroughly recommended.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07763H6D7/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b07763h6d7

    I finished it yesterday. Great read!


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    #1801
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Dante7 wrote: »
    I've just finished Fergus White's book about his ascent in 2010. Someone posted about it a few days ago and I bought the Kindle version for £1.99. Absolutely fantastic read. Thoroughly recommended.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07763H6D7/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b07763h6d7

    Annnnd sold!


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